Southport | The public notification sirens within 10 miles of the Brunswick Nuclear Plant will sound at full volume Nov. 18 in an annual test.During this test, all of the sirens will sound at 10 a.m. for three minutes.

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They say when it rains it pours, and Wednesday, it poured. The heavy rain has already led to a number of delays for Thursday.

More than four inches of rain came down in parts of Pender County with some viewers reporting more than seven inches in Hampstead. Some drivers were faced with up to a foot of standing water on a number of roads across the region.

With the Veterans Day holiday, the miserable weather convinced many to stay home, which led to one Carolina Beach business owner to improvise with a rainy day sale.

”I just thought I would do something maybe to bring in customers. Typically they don’t do much shopping on a rainy day in the wintertime. So I just thought I’d try a new gimmick,” said James Allen, owner of Linda’s Fashions.

Unfortunately the sale didn’t bring in too many visitors, but in a beach community the rain isn’t always bad news.

“It depends, rainy days in the summer are good because it drives people off of the beach and they go shopping. But rainy days in the off-season are typically not good, because people tend to stay home,” Allen said.

Emergency officials across the region had several reports of hydroplaning vehicles, in addition to some minor flooding.

Most of the rain can be blamed on what was once Hurricane Ida, which made landfall in Alabama early Tuesday morning. If Ida sticks around, there may be more good deals in Carolina Beach.

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1,065 students were vaccinated Wednesday after UNCW officials received their first batch of the inoculations, which have been in limited supply nationwide. The school received 2,900 doses of the vaccine.